Ray Forrest
- Professor of Urban Studies - MSocSci (Birm) PhD (Bristol)
- Centre for Urban and Public Policy Research
- Tel: +44 (0)117 954 5580
- Email: R.Forrest@bristol.ac.uk
Personal profile
Ray Forrest is Professor of Urban Studies and Associate Director of the Centre for East Asian Studies. He has held visiting appointments at the University of Glasgow, the University of Hong Kong and City University of Hong Kong. From 2001 to 2005 he was co-director (with Professor Ade Kearns, University of Glasgow) of the ESRC Centre for Neighbourhood Research. Ray was Head of the School for Policy Studies from 2001-2004. He is currently on leave of absence as Chair Professor in Housing and Urban Studies at the City University of Hong Kong.
He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Network of Housing Researchers and is joint editor of Housing Studies, co-editor of Asian Public Policy and Series Editor, Housing and Society for Routledge.
Ray is completing an ESRC funded project on Housing Assets and Intergenerational Dynamics in East Asian Societies (with Misa Izuhara) and is embarking on a new Hong Kong RGC funded project on the Future of Hong Kong's Public Rental System.
Teaching interests
Housing and social policy; contemporary urban society; European social policy; globalisation and social policy; policy research; welfare policy in East Asia.
Research interests
The changing sociology of the contemporary city; housing and urban change in East Asia; housing, the macro-economy and globalisation; housing policy and social inequalities.
Research projects
Completed
- Housing assets and inter-generational dynamics in East Asian societies (2010)
- Neighbourhood and social cohesion in Guangzhou, China (2004)
- Housing, taste and place: The housing histories of gentrifiers (2003)
- EU's Sixth Framework Programme: Financial support developing a research proposal (2002)
- Restructuring of the home ownership system: Japan-Great Britain comparison (2002)